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What is your why? Strategies for Success

In order to be able to use the courses and use them in the best possible way, we have to answer the question; ‘Why?’. I think of the courses as tools to support your growth. I think it’s really...

VIDEO: How I get my son to practice every day (and how this will help YOU!)

After the video that I posted last week, I got a whole bunch of people reaching out to me and asking me how I got my kid to practice every day so I wanted to detail that experience in a way that would...

Piano Improvisation: The Ostinato

Practicing technique at the piano is often boring and requires a lot of scale running and Hanon playing.  Over the years, I teach less and less rote technical work and spend more time teaching people...

Piano Improvisation like Erik Satie

This is the fourth video in a new series called “Quickies” – short, info-packed tutorials designed to give you great information you can use TODAY. In this tutorial, I show you how...

5 tips to help you choose the perfect digital piano

As a performing pianist and piano teacher, I am frequently asked by about getting an instrument to practice on.  Here are my 5 tips to help you choose the perfect digital piano. A Real Piano...

Why faking is the answer to all your piano woes

The art of faking on the pianois all about approximating an accompaniment part.  We do this by using our knowledge of the harmony and we use rhythms to estimate the basic gist of the piano part. There...

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